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Author Matthews, Honor.

Title The primal curse : the myth of Cain and Abel in the theatre / by Honor Matthews
Published New York : Schocken Books, 1967

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 W'PONDS  809.93512 H4393/P  AVAILABLE
Description 221 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents The triumph of evil: Some Jacobean revenge plays -- Cain's sin interpreted by Ibsen -- Brand and Peer Gynt -- August Strindberg: The appearance of Eastern mythology -- J-P. Sartre: The existentialist murderer -- Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka -- Jean Genet -- The disappearance of the image in England and America -- Amedee or How to get rid of it
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes
Subject Cain (Biblical figure) -- In literature.
Cain in literature
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
LC no. 67011107
ISBN 0805232087
9780805232080